Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Horseshoe Bay Resort sits on 6,500-acre Lake LBJ, so there is no shortage of water. This is the ..
. [+] 12th hole on the Apple Rock course. Horseshoe Bay Resort Why take a golf vacation to the Austin area? Well, it starts with great golf, but when you throw in world-class barbecue, other amazing cuisine, world-class music, and wonderful waterfront, you get a combination that’s hard to beat—if you know where to go.
The golf resort landscape in the United States has changed dramatically in recent years, with the emergence of multiple “mega-resorts” boasting four courses or more under one roof. When I started covering golf travel, you could count those on the fingers of one hand. This trend, along with the reality of the golf media business, which is to focus on the shiny and new and ignore the classics, caused many once high-profile destinations to drop under the national radar.
I’ve recently been focused on exploring golf’s many hidden gems, because it is usually much easier to get rooms and tee times, you often get more bang for your buck and almost always more than you expected, and travel is an industry where it’s all about exceeding expectations. Most recently here at Forbes I covered a top Midwest golf destination that offers ten 18-hole courses, Top 100 in the U.S.
golf, and a first-class golf academy at a reasonable price point yet does not get the industry attention it deserves. There are many pools.